From: Eric Walker
I can see how your line of reasoning leads to
Casimir/ZPE/Mills as a single-miracle explanation. But I don't see how it
argues against gamma suppression if we rule out significant Ni->Cu
reactions. I've probably missed an important detail.First off – we probably need a better terminology base than “gamma suppression” as it is used in medicine and other fields. Radiation shielding is well known, and if the further concept is that some new kind of active shielding can replace dense metals, then we need to get specific about whether this is 1) Better non-active, shielding not requiring heavy elements 2) Active geometry (Casimir ??) that provides efficient down-shifting 3) Active counter-radiation, or electromagnetic intervention that has a cancelling effect (so-called n radiation) 4) Some combination of the above In the end, complete gamma shielding/suppression is even more improbable than LENR, from the standpoint of mainstream physics. The details of why this is true are both statistical and logical. First – the logic. There is massive economic incentive for finding gamma elimination without a large mass (weight) disadvantage. The commercial incentive has been with us for sixty years, and every national Lab has had a look at this problem. The military salivates over this. If there was a way to do it, it would be worth hundreds of billions in both civilian and military applications. Every airliner could have a convention fission reactor onboard, for instance, for unlimited travel … and of course every military plane, tank, and other vehicle would have them as well. Fission reactors can be made small and light, except for the shielding. The can be made of carbon fiber, for instance - except that it is transparent to gammas. At one time, automobiles were seen as a market for nuclear fission. The reactor itself can be that small – if and when some kind of advanced gamma radiation technique is available. However, in a statistical sense – the problem is that gamma radiation is extremely penetrating… so much so that a milligram of radium hidden and shielded in a cargo container can be not only detected but its signature noted. Some gamma radiation always gets through. Even 1000 feet of earth is no enough to shield for Cosmic gammas. That is its nature. So “gamma suppression” itself really requires two miracles … especially since it is completely hypothetical to begin with. The first is that it happens at all, even in principle, since it has never been unequivocally seen outside of heavy metals - and the second is that it can completely shield 100% of the time … when tons of lead, cannot do this. That is a daunting challenge, and the worst part is that if it happened - it would actually eliminate the need for LENR at all. Jones
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